To get an own ActionController that can be called like this: http://www.mysexydomain.de/nicefrontname/nicecontrollerprefix/niceactionprefix/ … you have to add the following snippet into the FE or BE section of your config.xml: <frontend> <routers> <sns_documentmaster> <use>standard</use> <args> <module>SNS_Documentmaster</module> <frontName>nicefrontname</frontName> </args> </sns_documentmaster> </routers> </frontend>
To create a UTF-8 Database: CREATE DATABASE my_very_nice_db DEFAULT CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT COLLATE utf8_general_ci; For external access, have a look at MySQL – external Access.
With tar On Unix based plattforms you can use the tar command for file compression and also for later uncompression. Compression $> tar -pczf web.tar.gz web/ With -h as the first parameter the real files instead symbolic links are compressed. So you can tar symbolic link targets. To exclude files or folder, you can define –exclude=’fileOFolderPath’ directly […]
There are conditional commands for MySQL too. IF/ELSE SELECT FieldA as A, FieldB as B, IF(FieldA = FieldB, ‘equal’, ‘not equal’) as condition, FROM table WHERE this LIKE that Or cascaded: SELECT FieldA as A, FieldB as B, IF(FieldA = FieldB,’FieldA is equal to FieldB’,IF(FieldC = FieldD,’FieldC is equal to FieldD’,’all false’)) as output, FROM […]
To register a helper for your module, you can add the following snippet inside the global tag of your config.xml: <helpers> <sheldon_misc> <class>Sheldon_Misc_Helper</class> </sheldon_misc> </helpers>
The following snippet have to be added to the config.xml under the frontend (for FE-events) – or the adminhtml (for BE-Events) – tag: <events> <event_name> <observers> <observer_unique_config_name> <!– singleton or model –> <type>singleton</type> <class>Namespace_Modul_Model_Modelname</class> <method>functionToCallOnModelClassInstance</method> </observer_unique_config_name> </observers> </event_name> </events>
The charset the Apache delivers the content with can be changed really easy. Just add the following line to the respective .htaccess or your Apache configuration to force the UTF-8 character set: AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
 To add JavaScript or CSS files to the head section of the resulting HTML page, you can add something like this to the _prepareLayout function of a Block class: $headBlock = $this->getLayout()->getBlock(‘head’); $headBlock->addJs(‘somefolder/ask-sheldon.js’); $headBlock->addCss(‘somefolder/ask-sheldon.css’); As you can see, we can use the layout model to get the head block an use its functions to add files. This […]
You can do this with the following XMLÂ in your config.xml: <frontend> <product> <collection> <attributes> <ATTRIBUTECODE/> </attributes> </collection> </product> </frontend> But ATTENTION: This can become a performance issue, because it loads the attribute every time the product collection is loaded! If you added too many attributes, the performance can get worse!
To get the protocol used for the current page: var protocol = window.location.protocol
